Video: Peter Kollock lectures on collective action dilemmas and the internet

28AprMay 7, 2015 By Marc Smith

Below is one of the few videos of the late sociologist Peter Kollock giving a lecture that I know of. It is a great example of Peter’s style: entertaining and rich with ideas and insights. The video captures Peter’s talk at Howard Rheingold’s Stanford class on “Literacy of Cooperation” – a review of computer-mediated collective action in Winter 2005. Peter speaks about strategies to avoid or resolve social dilemmas, covering the Tragedy of the Commons and Prisoner’s Dilemma situations, and applying these concepts to social media and Internet collective action.

A podcast from the Yi-Tan conference call was devoted to a discussion of Peter Kollock’s work.

If you know of additional videos of Peter, please send them my way! marc-at-connectedaction-dot-net

July 17 – July 23, 2011 – NodeXL Session at Computational Social Science Workshop, Lipari Island, Italy

25AprMay 7, 2015 By Marc Smith

I will be speaking at the Jacob T. Schwartz International School for Scientific Research week long Lipari School on Computational Social Science , July 17 – July 23, 2011, Lipari Island, Italy.

This year’s program is dedicated to Computational Social Science: Text and Decisions

Speakers:

Claudio Cioffi-Revilla: Director of the Center for Social Complexity, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University, Washington DC.
Huan Liu: Community Detection and Mining in Social Media [abstract]
School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University
Roel Popping: Computer-assisted text analysis, and the relevance of decision making and text mining [abstract]
Department of Sociology, University of Groningen

Tutorials

Marc A. Smith: Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Maps and Measures with NodeXL [abstract]
Chief Social Scientist, Connected Action Consulting Group
Calogero Zarba: Introduction to matrix algebra [abstract]
Neodata Intelligence s.r.l., Italy
Alessandro Pluchino: Netlogo: An agent based simulation programmable environment [abstract], University of Catania, Italy

11 March 2011: San Francisco – Future of Networks event

05MarMay 7, 2015 By Marc Smith

On 11 March 2011, I will be speaking at:

Organizational and Social Media Network Analysis:
Next Practices in Organizational Networks, Analytics and Media

Along with Valdis Krebs, Chief Scientist, http://thenetworkthinkers.com/

Valdis will be speaking about Organizational Network Analysis – Introduction to Enterprise Networks, followed by a InFlow 3.1 Workshop: Social Network Analysis with InFlow 3.1

I will be speaking about Social Media Network Analysis with NodeXL.

Preservation Park
1233 Preservation Park Way
Oakland, CA 94612
(510) 874-7580
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November 8, 2010 – Seoul, Korea: 3rd International Conference on Digital Culture

06NovMay 7, 2015 By Marc Smith

On November 8th, 2010 I spoke in Seoul, Korea at the 3rd International Conference on Digital Culture on the topic of “Smart Society and Civic Culture“.

2010-November-8-NIA – Smart Society and Civic Culture – Marc Smith

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Several of my colleagues also spoke at the event, including Leslie Tkach-Kawasaki from the University of Tsukuba, Japan, Han Woo Park from YeoungNam University, Korea, George Barnett from the University of California, Davis and Robert Ackland from The Australian National University, AU.

Robert Ackland from The Australian National University, AU

George Barnett from the University of California, Davis

Han Woo Park from YeoungNam University, Korea

Leslie Tkach-Kawasaki from the University of Tsukuba, Japan

Marc Smith, Connected Action Consulting Group

Han Woo Park‘s research team from YeoungNam University, Korea

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Video: Ben Shneiderman: Methods and Tools for Facilitating Social Participation

12JunMay 7, 2015 By Marc Smith

Ben Shneiderman spoke on June 2, 2010 at the Faculty of Management, Tel Aviv University in an event organized by UPA Israel and the Leon Recanati School of Business.

Ben Shneiderman: Methods and Tools for Facilitating Social Participation from User Experience Israel (UXI) on Vimeo.

Nice review of information visualization techniques and some mention of recent work on the NodeXL project.

May 12, 2010: Princeton Club of Northern California – Silicon Valley Luncheon: Making Meaningful Maps of Social Media Networks

03MayJuly 13, 2016 By Marc Smith

I will be speaking at the Princeton Club of Northern California on May 12, 2010.

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Silicon Valley Luncheon: Making Meaningful Maps of Social Media Networks

5/12

12-1:30

Palo Alto

Krim Stephenson’97

As more and more of our lives take place online, we leave behind ever more data about ourselves and our relationships with others. Technical advances are making lasting changes in both our relationships and our concept of privacy. As more and more of our personal and professional interactions take place in digital spaces, we leave behind ever more data about ourselves and our relationships with others. That data can be used to generate “social maps” that visually depict patterns of contribution and connection between individuals, yielding results that are often powerful and surprising. What do social maps like this tell us, and how can they help us understand and improve our organizations? What are the social and ethical issues raised when employers, insurers, and the government can track whom we associate with, and use that data to predict our actions?

In this talk, sociologist Marc Smith, Chief Social Scientist for Connected Action Consulting Group (http://www.connectedaction.net/), a provider of social media analysis platforms and services, will describe and demonstrate these new technologies and some ways of thinking about their implications. Marc Smith is a member of the team that developed NodeXL, a tool for tracking and visualizing social data, and the co-author along with Ben Shneiderman and Derek Hansen of the upcoming book Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a connected world.

Registration fee includes lunch.

Date:	Wednesday 5/12
Time:	12-1:30
Location:	Offices of Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati, Palo Alto
Address:	650 Page Mill Road
Contact:	Krim Stephenson ’97 415 730-5746

Talk on Social Media at the University of Porto, Portugal, March 26th, 2010

20MarMay 7, 2015 By Marc Smith

Along with my colleague Eduarda Mendes-Rodriguez I will be speaking at the University of Porto next Friday, March 26th.

Hands-on Workshop – Social Media Network Analysis in NodeXL

This workshop provides an overview of Social Network Analysis (SNA) and its application to social media. The network or directed graph is a common structure in a wide range of different kinds of social media. Social Network Analysis is a set of tools, concepts, and techniques that can help measure a graph and the location and connection pattern of each component part.

Using NodeXL, workshop participants will learn how to take data from common social media sources (including enterprise discussions and online communities, Twitter, Flickr, your own email) and perform various types of analysis. Through this workshop, participants will:

· be able to understand the basics of SNA, its terminology and background.
· be able to transform communication data (e.g. Twitter, email, Flickr, message boards etc.) into network data.
· understand the different possible presentations of social networks, e.g. in a matrix or a sociogram.
· apply network metrics and visualizations to find clusters and key contributors in real world social media data.
· get familiar with the use of standard SNA tools and software in general and the NodeXL social network analysis add-in for Excel in particular.
· be able to derive practical and useful information through SNA analysis that would help design an innovative and successful online community.

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University of Haifa and IBM Research talk on Social Media Networks, February 24, 2010

13FebMay 7, 2015 By Marc Smith

After speaking at the Israel Internet Association conference February 22, I will speak at IBM Research in Haifa at an event co-sponsored by the University of Haifa Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the M.A. program in Sociology of Technology. My hosts are Professor Gustavo Mesch from the university and Dr. Adam Perer from IBM research.

Wednesday, February 24^th, 1 pm

IBM Building
Haifa University

Title: Visualizing collections of social media connections: using social network analysis to assess, evaluate and measure social media engagement

Abstract: Social networks are created whenever people interact. These networks become more visible when interactions take place through social media. Social networks form when people link, reply, comment, edit, tag, and friend one another. Sub-populations are formed whenever people mention the same company, products, event, topic, or personality. Using social network analysis on collections of social media connections reveals important patterns: how are people clustered and grouped, where are the gaps, who plays the roles of bridge, hub, and isolate? In this talk I will display maps of twitter, you tube, flickr, and enterprise email systems and demonstrate several tools that can be used to collect, analyze, map and monitor social media, including the free and open NodeXL (network overview, discovery and exploration) add-in Excel 2007.

Here, for example, is a map of the connections among people who recently mentioned “haifa” in twitter sized by number of followers:

Some photos taken during the trip are available after the jump:

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Oxford Internet Institute: Forum on Relationships and the Internet December 4th

28NovMay 7, 2015 By Marc Smith

On December 4th, I will be attending the Oxford Internet Institute‘s Forum on Relationships and the Internet which will feature researchers focused on computer-mediated relationships. Rather than being used primarily to access information, people often use networked computing to access people, creating or sustaining relationships with others. There are many ways in which the Internet and a range of applications are now used to find new people, find old people, maintain primary connections, sustain weak ties, and build personal and professional relationships. Dating sites are a clear part of the Internet relationship picture but so are professional “dating” services like LinkedIn or professional services directories like Craig’s List, social networking services like Facebook, and “normal” tools like email. People now use a concerted set of Internet tools in building and maintaining their relationships.

Researchers are interested in online dating and social networking. They are now exploring the role of information and communication technologies in all forms of interpersonal relationships. Practitioners from a growing and international relationship industry who want to cultivate and manage these relationship systems will attend along with policy-makers who seek to regulate their uses towards positive ends and avoid abuses.

Speakers include:

Bill Dutton, Oxford Internet Institute
Nai Li, Oxford Internet Institute
Bernie Hogan, Oxford Internet Institute
Ellen Helsper, London School of Economics
Monica Whitty, Nottingham-Trent University
Barry Wellman, University of Toronto and Director of NetLab
Joe Walther, Michigan State University
Nicole Ellison, Michigan State University

Research in Internet relationships goes beyond a focus on dating sites and services to incorporate all the stages and types of relationships being shaped by social information technology. My demonstration will illustrate the ways NodeXL can map relationships in a variety of social media spaces, including YouTube, flickr, email, twitter, and (with the help of Bernie Hogan’s ego-network importer) Facebook. These maps can be a useful ways of distinguishing different kinds of relationship patterns present in these spaces, identifying key participants who acts as hubs or bridges.

The OII also maintains a video webcast site with a great collection of recordings of lectures and panel discussions of a variety of topics related to the Internet and society. In particular, check out Duncan Watts presenting a talk on “Using the Web to do Social Science“.

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Social Media Network Analysis Workshop – October 29th in Mountain View, CA

27SepMay 7, 2015 By Marc Smith

The network created by “Who follows who among the people who tweeted “#CHI2010”. Node size is proportional to total tweets. Generated with NodeXL

On October 29th, I will be offering a workshop in Mountain View, California on the application of social network analysis to the measurement of social media.

The workshop will run from 9m to 4pm and include hands-on exercises using real world social media data sets and the free and open NodeXL social network analysis add-in for Excel 2007. We will create social network metrics and visualizations from personal email, twitter, facebook, and message board records to reveal the broad outline of a community, its various kinds of leaders and active participants, major cliques and clusters, and pivotal events.

The workshop will make use of the NodeXL tutorial:
http://casci.umd.edu/NodeXL_Teaching

Registration at:
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/386418789

I will post the slides for those who cannot attend, but the live event will allow me to help those interested in learning how to visualize social media networks and generate and interpret social network metrics. What’s an “eigenvector centrality”? Come find out why that number highlights special people in a network and how to calculate it on your own network data sets. Find experts, identify the people who are most heavily connected, and key contributors. If you plan to attend, it would be great if you bring sample data: any edge list or matrix is fine. We can plot and measure sample data participants bring along with them.

I will demonstrate how to create twitter network maps like the one above which shows networks of follows connections among a group of people who tweeted the string “#CHI2010” (as returned by search.twitter.com). You can make your own twitter maps with NodeXL! Similar maps can be made with a user name. In the workshop we will be sure to make a twitter network for anyone there who tweets.

Upon completion of this workshop, participants will:
* be able to understand the basics of SNA, its terminology and background.
* be able to transform communication data (e.g. Twitter, email, flickr, message boards etc.) into network data.
* understand the different possible presentations of social networks, e.g. in a matrix or a sociogram.
* apply network metrics and visualizations to find clusters and key contributors in real world social media data sets.
* get familiar with the use of standard SNA tools and software in general and the NodeXL social network analysis add-in for Excel in particular.
* be able to derive practical and useful information through SNA analysis that would help design an innovative and successful online community.

Who should attend? People interested in community management, social media monitoring and marketing, knowledge management, collaboration and human resources, legal discovery, organizational behavior and management

Registration.

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